ch 21 history

started by rosa parks and led by mlk jr

organized national protest groups to help students

purpose was to carry on nonviolent crusades against the evils of second class citizenship

CORE

fight for equal seating on railroad accommodations

father charged school for denying entrance of his black daughter to a white elementry school

fight for unsegregated seating on buses ( denied)

dedicated his life to fighting racism and attened many courts

outlawed segregation in public facilities

won a federal court case that allowed him to enroll in the all white university of mississippi

"master builder"

hoped to provoke violence to convince kennedy to enforce law

hoped their campaign would recive publitcity which would inforce congress to pass voting right

prohibited discrimination because of race religion national orgin and gender

eliminated the so called literacy test that had distinguisged many voters

black daughter of mississippi share croppers televised a speech in which she told how she was jailed and police beat her for registering to vote

after a man in selma had been killed for trying to voote mlk and sncc set up a protest march where they recieved federal protection by johnsons

originally thought the white race and black race should not intertwine. studied the ways of muhammed and became an islamic leader.

the black muslims

of sncc decided to lead their followers in the march that meredith started which started in tennessee and ended in Jackson

pres johnsons had appointed to study the cause of urban violence

white racism

create new jobs, construct new housing and end de facto segregation to knock out ghetto environment

ended discrimination in housing